Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries;
- Example: "he studied medicine at Harvard"[syn: medicine, practice of medicine]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
practice of medicine
n 1: the learned profession that is mastered by graduate
training in a medical school and that is devoted to
preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries;
"he studied medicine at Harvard" [syn: medicine,
practice of medicine]